Drumaghy
Townland in the civil parish of Inishkeel, barony of Banagh, Co. Donegal
- Area
- 46.6 ha
- 115 acres
- Land parcels
- 46
- registered freehold, median 2,184 m² (0.22 ha, 0.54 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 11
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
46 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Drumaghy, from 225 m² to 98,287 m² (9.83 ha, 24.29 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 16 neighbouring parcels touch it.
Download the townland: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings; GeoJSON or KML.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
No zone of a development plan covers Drumaghy in the national zoning. Outside zoned towns and villages, the county development plan's rural policies apply to each application.
Source: Tailte Éireann and the Department of Housing (MyPlan), national zoning, CC BY 4.0.
Planning applications
Sites that touch the townland, newest first
13 May 2025Conditional
DOMESTIC GARAGE WITH ATTACHED SHED AND ASSOCIATED SITE WORK
Retention · Donegal County Council, 2560756
18 Apr 2024Conditional
CONSTRUCTION OF A NEW AGRICULTURAL SHED AND ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS
Permission · Donegal County Council, 2460548
8 Sept 2022Conditional
ERECTION OF A DOMESTIC EXTENSION TO EXISTING DWELLING HOUSE WITH MINOR AMENDMENTS TO THE FRONT ELEVATION ALONG WITH ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS
Permission · Donegal County Council, 2251500
22 Jul 2022Conditional
EXTENSION TO EXISTING DWELLING HOUSE AND ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS
Permission · Donegal County Council, 2251258
2 Jun 2022Conditional
DEVELOPMENT OF A DWELLING HOUSE AND CONNECTION TO ALL PUBLIC SERVICES AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS
Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2250956
30 Aug 2021Conditional
INSTALLATION OF A PORTABLE PAY-TO-USE WASTE COMPACTOR FOR THE ACCEPTANCE OF RESIDUAL AND FOOD WASTE AND A PORTABLE PAY-TO-USE COMPACTOR FOR MIXED RECYCABLES
Permission · Donegal County Council, 2151711
15 Jul 2021N/a
INSTALLATION OF A PORTABLE PAY-TO-USE WASTE COMPACTOR FOR THE ACCEPTANCE OF RESIDUAL AND FOOD WASTE AND A PORTABLE PAY-TO-USE COMPACTOR FOR MIXED RECYCABLES
Permission · Donegal County Council, 2151422
8 Jul 2021N/a
ERECTION OF (1) A PORTABLE PAY-TO-USE WASTE COMPACTOR FOR THE ACCEPTANCE OF RESIDUAL AND FOOD WASTE (2) A PORTABLE PAY-TO-USE COMPACTOR FOR MIXED RECYCABLES
Permission · Donegal County Council, 2151365
12 Aug 2019Conditional
DOMESTIC GARAGE & ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS
Retention · Donegal County Council, 1951230
30 Aug 2018Conditional
DEMOLITION OF EXISTING OUT BUILDING AND CONSTRUCTION OF A SINGLE STOREY EXTENSION TO THE REAR OF EXISTING DWELLING WITH CONNECTION TO ONSITE SERVICES AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS
Permission · Donegal County Council, 1851357
9 Aug 2018N/a
DEMOLITION OF EXISTING OUT BUILDING AND CONSTRUCTION OF A SINGLE STOREY EXTENSION TO THE REAR OF EXISTING DWELLING WITH CONNECTION TO ONSITE SERVICES AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS
Permission · Donegal County Council, 1851227
Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.
Nature and heritage
Designated sites and recorded monuments
Designated sites
- Special Area of Conservation: Slieve Tooey/Tormore Island/Loughros Beg Bay SAC 000190
- Special Area of Conservation: West of Ardara/Maas Road SAC 000197
- Proposed Natural Heritage Area: West Of Ardara/Maas Road 000197
- Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Slieve Tooey/Tormore Island/Loughros Beg Bay 000190
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Drumaghy.
Architectural heritage
- Rectory/glebe/vicarage/curate's house, 1870–1880 · Regional interest
Description
Detached three-bay two-storey former Church of Ireland rectory, built 1875, having advanced two-storey gable-fronted bay to the south end of the front elevation (east) having canted bay window at ground floor level, central advanced two-storey gable-fronted bay to the front elevation, and with two-storey return to the rear (west) at the north end. Now in use as a private house. Pitched natural purple slate roofs with exposed rafter ends, clay ridge tiles, cast-iron rainwater goods and four two-stage steeped ashlar tooled chimneystacks with chamfered copings over. Single half-dormer window openings to the south and north side elevations having pitched natural slate roofs, and hipped natural slate roof to canted bay. Roughcast rendered walls over projecting smooth plinth course, and with continuous sill course to canted bay. Square-headed window openings at ground floor level having smooth render surrounds to upper halves, stucco hoodmouldings over, smooth rendered reveals, painted stone sills, single surviving one-over-one pane timber sliding sash window, and with mainly replacement windows. Central segmental-headed door opening to the front elevation (east) having smooth rendered reveal, smooth render surround to upper half, stucco hoodmouldings over, replacement timber double-doors, and plain overlight. Set back from road in own grounds in the rural countryside to the south-west of the centre of Ardara. Outbuildings to rear. Gateway to the south-east with roughcast rendered piers (on square-plan) with smooth rendered pointed-arched motif to front faces (east), moulded render coping and ball finials over, metal gates, and with flanking sections of roughcast rendered boundary walling terminated in roughcast rendered piers (on square-plan).
Designated sites: National Parks and Wildlife Service. Recorded monuments: Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service. Buildings: National Inventory of Architectural Heritage. Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Works at or in relation to a recorded monument need two months' written notice to the National Monuments Service (National Monuments (Amendment) Act 1994, section 12).
Ground and risks
Radon, landslides, flooding
- Radon
- About 1 in 10 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home
- Landslides
- Susceptibility moderately high, moderately low, low, low (inferred), on the 1:50,000 map.
- Terrain model
- LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_1155 (ZIP).
- Flooding
- The flood maps of the Office of Public Works: floodinfo.ie.
Radon Risk Map of Ireland, Environmental Protection Agency; Landslide Susceptibility Classification, Geological Survey Ireland; both CC BY 4.0. LiDAR: contains Irish Public Sector Data (Geological Survey Ireland & the Office of Public Works) licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) licence.
Homes sold
Property Price Register
No address of the register names Drumaghy with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Donegal.
The townland
- Name
- Drumaghy
- Area
- 466,308 m² (46.63 ha, 115.23 acres)
- Civil parish
- Inishkeel, and its townlands
- Barony
- Banagh
- Electoral division
- Glengesh, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Glengesh electoral division: 694 people in 263 households; 82% of households own their home; 30% of homes were built since 2001; 12% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 22% were holiday homes.
- Placenames
- Drumaghy on logainm.ie, the Placenames Database of Ireland
Townlands, civil parishes, baronies and electoral divisions, National Statutory Boundaries, Tailte Éireann, CC BY 4.0. Census 2022, Small Area Population Statistics by electoral division, Central Statistics Office, CC BY 4.0. A townland is the smallest land division of Ireland, and the unit of a rural address; old registers such as the 1901 and 1911 censuses file it under its civil parish and barony.